The ‘Easy Way’ to Crush the Mainstream Media

FCC chair Brendan Carr is on a crusade to Trumpify the airwaves.

The Atlantic

The scandal that briefly made #BrendanCarr a household name this fall was an outlier several times over. For one thing, #FCC chairmen rarely make news. More than that, Carr usually knows better than to draw too much attention to himself. A seasoned bureaucrat, he has a knack for pulling the strings of power in ways that escape public scrutiny.

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But when #BrendanCarr issued a mob-style threat over a #JimmyKimmel monologue that #Republicans didn’t like—“We can do this the easy way or the hard way”—he made the #Trump admin’s appetite for #censorship unignorable.

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